Ecology Quiz

Primary consumers eat...

• primary producers

• primary consumers

• secondary consumers

• quaternary consumers

A lion that eats a zebra that ate grass is a ...

• primary producer

• primary consumer

• secondary consumer

• tertiary consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A heterotroph...

• is an autotroph

• eats other organisms

• is a primary producer

• is an autotroph & a primary producer

As nutritional energy passes through the food chain, energy...

• is lost

• is gained

• remains constant

• increases, then decreases

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A detrivore...

• is an autotroph

• eats dead organisms

• kills animals

• all are correct

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The food chain starts with....

• the sun

• primary producers

• primary consumers

• decomposers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the energy pyramid here, how much of the energy in the producers gets passed to the herbivores?

• 10%
• 20%
• 80%
• 90%

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the energy pyramid below, which organism has the least amount of energy available?

• Producers
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Top Predator

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What would most likely happen if the rabbit population was removed from the food chain grass —› rabbit —› fox?

• their would be more grass
• there would be less rabbits
• there would be more fox

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Species make up ___________, which make up _____________.

• populations ; communities

• communities ; populations

• ecosystems ; communities

• populations ; ecosystems